Policeman in court for murder

Abolarin was charged to court after he was summarily dismissed by the police authorities the previous Saturday. His dismissal followed a recommendation by a trial committee orderly room set up to look into his case by the police. The alleged killer cop who was handcuffed to the court was carrying a shotgun he allegedly fired […]

Abolarin was charged to court after he was summarily dismissed by the police authorities the previous Saturday. His dismissal followed a recommendation by a trial committee orderly room set up to look into his case by the police. The alleged killer cop who was handcuffed to the court was carrying a shotgun he allegedly fired himself to give the impression that he killed out of self defence.

However, Abolarin’s colleague who rode the motorcycle when the unfortunate incident happened, was not brought to court for trial.

When the case came up for trial, the mobile policeman was ordered to be remanded at the Olokuta maximum prison pending the time the case will be given accelerated hearing.

Findings revealed that the late Dayo Adeola of the works department, Akure South Local Government, was last Thursday killed by a stray bullet allegedly fired by a mobile policeman, Corporal Muyiwa Tunde Abolarin, a few metres to the council’s secretariat. Adeola who was coming from the canteen from where he had gone for breakfast was hit by the stray bullet from a mobile policeman’s gun and died immediately.

The killing of the council worker led to protests by other workers of the council who dragged the rider of the motorcycle to the council secretariat and beat him to pulp after setting the motorcycle on fire.

Workers of the 18 local government councils in Ondo State had threatened to embark on a massive protest over perceived harassment, intimidation and killing of their members by men of the Ondo state police command.

The workers, under the aegis of the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), said it would no longer tolerate acts that could affect the well being of its members across the state. The union also said it would not want the case to be swept under the carpet like other extra judicial killings in the country.